NEW: Speaker Pelosi implementing FINES for members who don't wear a mask on the House floor
$500 fine for first offense.
$2,500 for second office.
Fines will be deducted from Member pay (no use of campaign funds or MRA for fines).
— Heather Caygle (@heatherscope) January 12, 2021
The toll is rising.#Republican Congressional opposition by at least 6 Members to ???-wearing clearly led to a superspreader event during the #insurrection hunker-down. https://t.co/VQgmFJ0Pqs
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) January 12, 2021
At the beginning of 2021, roughly 345,000 Americans had died from #Covid19.
12 days later the death toll has topped 380,000.
To put that in context: This is almost the size of the population of Cleveland, Ohio. pic.twitter.com/JsGqs3qQMT— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) January 13, 2021
The US had +222,121 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the total to over 23.3 million. The 7-day moving average fell slightly to under 253,000 per day. pic.twitter.com/Ekh0QyYhLO
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) January 13, 2021
A new step in the grim dance: the United States is again ahead of the European Union in daily COVID-19 deaths, per the @FT's count. https://t.co/hrwOIauTGj pic.twitter.com/UvPyv7nbXQ
— Nicolas Veron (@nicolas_veron) January 11, 2021
Trump administration will release all vaccine doses, adopting a policy proposed by the Biden team. It now will recommend vaccinating everyone 65 & over https://t.co/GkmZykq4lp
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) January 12, 2021
Deleted earlier, repeating to clarify:
When you tell 152M people they can ask for vaccine NOW, but you know there won't be enough doses to fully vax all of them until at least April & you've got less than 8 days left as HHS secretary, the intention was??? https://t.co/ZdxT4YlfdS— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) January 12, 2021
Interesting to hear HHS secretary Alex Azar blame the states for being too heavy handed & slow in their allocation of #Covid19 vaccines. States are following CDC recommendations — and were told they needed to.
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) January 12, 2021
Biden's transition official says Operation Warp Speed chief adviser has resigned https://t.co/QtmeeYx5aL pic.twitter.com/OXYZMdutR5
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 13, 2021
Passengers flying to the U.S. will soon need to show proof of a negative test for COVID-19 before they board their flight. https://t.co/LDM2FC81SV
— AP Health & Science (@APHealthScience) January 12, 2021
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According to @WHO half of all #COVID19 cases & deaths are in just 5 countries. And here are their tallies as of today.https://t.co/dvk4wxW34E pic.twitter.com/RbWMZeI1pz
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) January 12, 2021
More people died in Britain last year than in any year in the past century, surpassing even the toll during the 1918 pandemic – and still some flout the precautions (including the PM) https://t.co/vfgQpj4ifb
— Michael Slackman (@meslackman) January 12, 2021
"No other choice." The Netherlands extended its tough five-week coronavirus lockdown by a further three weeks amid concerns that infection rates are not falling quickly enough and fears about a new variant first detected in the United Kingdom. https://t.co/rXIP8XDKvm
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) January 12, 2021
Even after death, COVID-19 victims in a northern Greek city are kept in isolation. @CostasKantouris speaks to relatives, saddened that their loved ones are buried in quarantine.
Read more: https://t.co/1v73NGoZXN pic.twitter.com/F7V83YqBF7
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) January 12, 2021
Sweden has registered 17,395 new coronavirus cases since Friday, taking the total above 500,000 cases since the start of the pandemic, as hospitals struggled to cope with a rampant second wave of the virus, Health Agency statistics showed on Tuesday. https://t.co/OjxiyEDOat
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) January 12, 2021
A private Moscow clinic is in “direct negotiations” to bring the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to Russia before it receives official registration, a clinic representative told The Moscow Times on Tuesdayhttps://t.co/lJB5lwyNiW
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) January 13, 2021
Indonesia's president and top officials have received the first shot of a Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccine. The world's fourth most populated country plans to vaccinate millions of health care workers in the coming months. https://t.co/5H2pJEmXUI
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 13, 2021
Indonesia coronavirus: The vaccination drive targeting younger people https://t.co/CcOLUDGPRk
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 13, 2021
Leader of South Korean religious sect, Shincheonji, found not guilty of breaking virus control laws https://t.co/DRdxGanvQ2
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 13, 2021
Officials say the African Union has secured close to 300 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in the largest such agreement yet for Africa. https://t.co/wLGatbjFYb
— AP Africa (@AP_Africa) January 13, 2021
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6 Months after leaving the hospital, Covid survivors still face lingering health issues. A large study of patients from a Wuhan hospital showed that a half-year later 3/4 were struggling with problems like fatigue, depression & diminished lung function https://t.co/L9FwMCe2kl
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) January 13, 2021
Here’s what you need to know about the U.K. & South African #coronavirus variants https://t.co/D2USrM0i0C
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) January 12, 2021
China's Sinovac vaccine was about 50% effective, much less than initially reported but enough, public-health experts say, to be worth giving, @samanthapearson and @luciwsj report https://t.co/w3ZmrN8lot
— Jonathan Rockoff (@jonathanrockoff) January 12, 2021
U.S. to buy 1.25 million additional doses of Regeneron's COVID-19 antibody cocktail https://t.co/ElvDTVpJYS pic.twitter.com/LnuUsRbQ0I
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 13, 2021
Should I get a COVID-19 vaccine if I've had the virus? Yes. Experts say people should plan on getting vaccinated regardless of previous infection. https://t.co/vElqTg4TGT
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 12, 2021
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As the U.S. goes through the most lethal phase of the coronavirus outbreak, officials in hard-hit areas show little willingness to impose new restrictions on businesses. And unlike in 2020, opposition to forced closings and other measures is bipartisan. https://t.co/kq95u1kIQI
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 12, 2021
California COVID surge shows signs of easing with hospitals strained to brink https://t.co/VqaqGFCgWW pic.twitter.com/3Wyq9S6NK1
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 13, 2021
"Our people are happy because we let them use personal responsibility to get through the pandemic" — Kristi Noem pic.twitter.com/pKIPGD7YP7
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 12, 2021
rikyrah
Thank you for the info.
Always reading, even if I don’t comment.
rikyrah
Azar has some MUTHAPHUCKIN’ NERVE.
Now that a REAL Administration is coming in , suddenly, they are concerned about vaccine distribution.
They had no actual plan.
They were literally going to recreate Spring 2020
With the Hunger Games between the States
Except, it wouldn’t be PPE
IT WOULD BE VACCINE.
Blaming the STATES?
For the lack of a FEDERAL PLAN
Doesn’t that sound familiar?
Phuck this asshole.
He needs to go to jail too.
JPL
Noem will be a force in the future, unless she is tied to trump, and tossed overboard. (metaphorically speaking, of course)
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY yesterday:
509 new cases. 894 hospitalized, 157 in the ICU. Still at 685 reported dead. 31% of hospital beds available, 24% of ICU beds available. Again, the age group with the most cases is the 20s.
YY_Sima Qian
On 1/12 China reported 107 new domestic confirmed, 35 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Liaoning Province:
Hebei Province:
Hebei Provincial Health Commission reported 90 new domestic confirmed (27 previously asymptomatic) and 15 new domestic asymptomatic cases. There are currently 395 domestic confirmed cases (1 critical, 12 serious, 367 moderate and 15 mild) and 215 domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. Cordon sanitaire is established around Shijiazhuang, Xingtai and Langfang, and all residential compounds and villages in these cities are under restricted access management, except for those in Medium and High Risk areas under lock down.
Jinzhong in Shanxi Province reported 1 new confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), 1 of the 2 asymptomatic cases reported on 1/11, that had come from Shijianzhuang at the beginning of the month.
Haining in Zhejiang Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case on 1/13, an imported case from Shijiazhuang. The case will be reported in tomorrow’s provincial national health commission’s data dumps.
Heilongjiang Province:
Heilongjiang Province reported 16 new domestic confirmed and 12 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Jilin Province:
Weihai in Shandong Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, who had attended a wedding at Wangkui County from 1/6 – 1/9. The case voluntarily took an RT-PCR test after learning of the Wangkui outbreak. It is amazing how an emerging outbreak in a rural hamlet, in the far northeastern corner of China, can quickly spread COVID-19 far and wide. The tremendous infrastructure buildout over the past decades have really increased mobility, and made epidemic control that much more challenging.
On 1/11, China reported 8 new imported confirmed cases, 3 imported asymptomatic cases and 1 imported suspect case:
Overall in China, 28 confirmed cases recovered, 5 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation and 42 were reclassified as confirmed case, and 617 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 784 active confirmed cases in the country (286 imported), 21 are in serious condition (3 imported), 565 asymptomatic cases (256 imported) and 1 suspect case (imported). 30,114 traced contacts are currently under quarantine.
On 1/12, Hong Kong reported 42 new cases, all domestic (11 of whom do not have source of infection identified).
TS (the original)
Thank you AL for your continuous research into what’s happening world wide & putting out a covid update every day. Other than checking my local scene (we keep getting put in lockdowns), the goto place for information. Very much appreciated.
rikyrah
@JPL:
She is phucking ridiculous???
OzarkHillbilly
Ain’t it funny how the dead never complain?
OzarkHillbilly
@JPL: Whoever next runs against her should stand at the debate lectern and just recite the names of the dead.
WereBear
@rikyrah: I share your rage.
I am continuing to go out as little as possible, even though my library card has expired. (The horror.)
The ONE exception was a road trip to adopt our new kitten, but we were masked, everyone was masked, and we lingered nowhere. The benefit of living in NY.
I checked the stats before we went, which was from the middle of nowhere to another place almost as rural.
On the one hand, we are low on the vaccine totem pole, but on the other, we are able to stay home and be safe.
mrmoshpotato
That’s one hell of a way to say, “All these deaths aren’t my fault.”
I’ve wondered before – does South Dakota still exist, or is everyone dead there from this virus and their negligent and homicidal governor?
WereBear
@mrmoshpotato: Correction: some of the living ones are happy.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 numbers. Director-General of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 2,985 new cases today at his media briefing, for a cumulative reported total of 141,533 cases. Dr Noor Hisham also reports four new deaths today, for a total of 559 deaths — 0.39% of the cumulative reported total, 0.50% of resolved cases.
32,377 active and contagious cases are currently in hospital; 197 are in ICU, 79 of them on respirators. Meanwhile, 994 patients recovered and were discharged, for a total of 111,578 patients recovered – 77.2% of the cumulative reported total.
After new cases spiked to 3,309 yesterday, Dr Noor Hisham estimates Malaysia’s current R0 at around 1.16.
11 new clusters were reported today: Taman Integrasi and Jalan Ijuk in Selangor; Jalan Rami, Kota, and Tanjung Megah in Johor; Jalan Kasturi and Jalan Thamby in KL; Kampung Tengah in Negeri Sembilan; Bukit Bakar in Kelantan; Taman Batik in Kedah; and Malim dialysis cluster in Melaka.
2983 new cases today are local infections. Selangor has 837 cases: 114 in older clusters, 197 in Taman Integrasi and Jalan Ijuk clusters, 294 close-contact screenings, and 232 other screenings. Johor has 535 cases: 245 in older clusters; 118 in Jalan Rami, Kota, and Tanjung Megah clusters; 60 close-contact screenings, and 112 other screenings. Sabah has 450 cases: 14 in existing clusters, 323 close-contact screenings, and 113 other screenings. KL has 291 local cases: 34 in older clusters, 15 in Jalan Kasturi and Jalan Thamby clusters, 96 close-contact screenings, and 146 other screenings. Sarawak has 165 local cases: 101 in existing clusters, 10 close-contact screenings, and 54 other screenings. Pahang has 143 cases: 116 in existing clusters, 15 close-contact screenings, and 12 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan has 106 cases: 15 in older clusters, one in Kampung Tengah cluster, 70 close-contact screenings, and 20 other screenings. Penang has 105 cases: 34 in existing clusters, 39 close-contact screenings, and 32 other screenings.
Kedah has 97 cases: nine in older clusters, one in Taman Batik cluster, 35 close-contact screenings, and 52 other screenings. Kelantan has 85 cases: nine in older clusters, three in Bukit Bakar cluster, 48 close-contact screenings, and 25 other screenings. Melaka has 72 cases: 11 in older clusters, three in Malim dialysis cluster, 49 close-contact screenings, and 10 other screenings. Perak has 61 cases: three in existing clusters, 34 close-contact screenings, and 24 other screenings. Terengganu has 27 cases: 12 in existing clusters, nine close-contact screenings, and six other screenings.
Putrajaya has 11 cases: one in an existing cluster, five close-contact screenings, and five other screenings. And Perlis has one case, found in other screening.
Only Labuan reported no new cases today.
Two new cases are imported. One was reported in KL, and one in Sarawak. They are arrivals from the UK and Brunei.
The four deaths today are a 63-year-old man in Sabah with diabetes and hypertension; a 77-year-old man diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, heart disease, and gout; a 62-year-old non-Malaysian man in Sabah, DOA with asthma and pulmonary tuberculosis; and a 19-year-old non-Malaysian girl in Sabah with anaemia.
Suburban Mom
@WereBear: I share your rage about many aspects of the pandemic. You might be able to renew your library card online. Books are important.
mrmoshpotato
@WereBear: Yeah. The ones who have died from the virus. Well, they’d probably rather still be alive.
Amir Khalid
Lockdown was never anywhere near as strict in the US as it has been here, and yet both lockdown fatigue and anti-lockdown sentiment are much stronger over there. It is a puzzlement.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
AL, I can hardly believe you have been doing these great Covid reports for a year. (I can hardly believe we all have been doing this for almost a year!) Thank you AL.
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid: Yeah… Puzzlement.
What’s it like having a government not run by fascist mobsters?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@mrmoshpotato: We’ll know in 7 days.
debbie
Speaking of Ohio, it was reported this morning that Ohio has run out of vaccines and would lose a week in the schedule because the next shipment isn’t due until next Tuesday. Heckuva job, Trumpy.
Amir Khalid
@mrmoshpotato:
I don’t know what to tell you. We have crony capitalism here, which is not a distant relative of fascist mobsterism, but we also have a generally knowledgeable public that expects government to be run competently and more or less honestly.
YY_Sima Qian
On the SinoVac vaccine’s efficacy, I think we need to wait for the complete and normalized data from SinoVac, and peer reviewed. We are seeing far too many different numbers from different countries, and different ones from Brazil. It appears to be been snared in domestic politics in Brazil and Turkey, at least. The best that I can gather from various reports:
Turkey reported > 91% efficacy (definition unclear) as preliminary result. However it is a very small trial of < 2K participants, and the results are based on ~ 10 infections across the control and test groups. Therefore, there will be huge error bars around the 91% number, but that did not stop Turkey from approving EUA for the vaccine. On the other hand, the trial participants are all HCWs, so it is a very challenging trial.
Indonesia reported ~ 65% efficacy (definition also unclear) as preliminary result. It is also a very small trial of ~ 2K participants, so error bars will also be huge. Not sure who the participants are.
The big one is in Brazil’s Sao Paolo State, ~ 26K participants, all HCWs. State officials first claimed 78% “clinical efficacy” against mild symptoms, and 100% “clinical efficacy” against moderate and severe illness. The state’s Butantan Institute then shared that the vaccine had “general efficacy” of ~ 50%, if including “very mild” symptoms. These numbers do not actually contradict each other. As it stands, that is actually an excellent result, especially for an inactivated virus vaccine. “Very mild” symptoms is pretty much that of the common cold, and 100% efficacy against moderate and severe illness eliminates the need for hospitalization. However, western MSM has a tendency to follow whichever spin that is most negative for China or Chinese entities, a tendency particularly pronounced among Anglosphere MSM, particularly in the last couple of years. Therefore, 50% number is making the rounds today, comparing it unfavorably to Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech’s 95% efficacy.
What the science illiterate (or purposely manipulative) journalists fail to note is that the numbers are not apples to apples, and the trial protocols are not the same. First, the SinoVac Phase III trial participants in Brazil are HCWs, making it a more challenging trial than the Moderna’s and Pfizer/BioNTech’s on general population (and the AstraZeneca/Oxford ones, for that matter). You could argue that HWC are alsop better protected than general population, and that is certainly true in some countries (such as China since early Feb.), not sure about Brazil and Turkey. Secondly, both Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech Phase III trial data show 100% efficacy against severe illness, and 95% efficacy against symptomatic illness. However, the different trials had different protocols for reporting illness. The Moderna trial asked participants to get tested if they showed 2 or more COVID-19 symptoms, and only counted those that tested positive. The Pfizer/BioNTech and SinoVac (at least in Brazil) ones asked participants to get tested if they showed 1 or more symptoms, and counted those who tested positive. Therefore, that latter two trials cast a wider net and caught more cases in both control and test arms. Finally, I am not sure if the different trials adopted the same definitions for “very mild”, “mild”, “moderate” and “severe”. In fact, the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech trials did not report “moderate” cases, as not every country has a “moderate” illness category distinct from “mild”. In short, there are no apples to apples comparison of efficacies across the approved vaccines.
We don’t know what the 86% efficacy claimed by the UAE for the SinoPharm vaccine really mean, either. That did not stop the UAE and Bahrain (and Egypt?) from approving the vaccine.
I do not have the time or expertise to read across the trial reports and normalize the data to develop apples to apples comparisons. I sure hope someone from ScienceMag or StatNews will do the work, though! SinoVac and SinoPharm have to release their trial reports and publish the research papers, though.
Finally, none of the trials regularly screened participants for asymptomatic infection, so we do not know the vaccines’ sterilization efficacy that prevent transmission. The AstraZeneca/Oxford Phase III trial in the UK did attempt to capture asymptomatic infection, but it was undermined by inconsistent dosing protocols. If we make some educated guesses about the rate of asymptomatic infection, or very mild infection that is missed, none of these vaccines may have high enough sterilization efficacy to achieve herd immunity, especially with the high percentage of antivaxxers, especially with the more infectious strains…
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid:
? Sounds nice.
Uncle Cosmo
Versus >75 and screw comorbidities, as in my true-bluish state of MD.
Oh joy.// Maybe someone like me (early 70s, type 2 diabetes) can hope for a first jab this side of Memorial Day. (A fella can dream, can’t he?)
Tony Jay
@Amir Khalid:
Being asked to inconvenience yourself in return for a visible, tangible improvement in a shitty situation is something most people would understand and agree to, and it may even be argued that the greater the inconvenience the greater the understanding and agreement – in that it feels like something is really happening and the situation is being taken seriously.
When people are asked to accept a shifting menu of half-arsed restrictions against a background din of hyperbolic denialism and you don’t see anything improving, at least not improving permanently, and indeed often gets worse, people are bound to respond with various kinds of frustration. Why the hell are we doing any of this if it’s not working?
You seem to have the former, the US and UK have the latter, with predictable results.
mayim
@WereBear:
Call your library ~ if any staff are working [which is what is happening at most libraries right now], they can renew your card over the phone. An email might also work, depending on the library; the library where I work does both.
ThresherK
I’m just grateful SD is a small state and half a continent away from me.
I do worry about people in other places, particularly more populous nearby states like MN, WI, and IL, being infected because of her idiocy.
Laura Too
@ThresherK: MN here, surrounded by a sea of stupidity. (SD, ND, Iowa and WI) Idiots from here think it’s fun to barhop on the border towns and bring it back here. Rather frustrating because our Gov/LT Gov are good people fighting an uphill battle.
Laura Too
@OzarkHillbilly: Happy to see you this morning, bit worried about you and comments from the other night. Know you are surrounded by love here.
Sloane Ranger
Yesterday in the UK we had 45,533 new cases, a 0.5% reduction in the rolling 7-day average. New cases by nation,
England – 41,121 (down @700)
Northern Ireland – 1205 (up @450)
Scotland – 1875 (up @100)
Wales – 1332 (down @670).
Deaths – There were 1243 deaths yesterday, an increase of 45.6% in the rolling 7-day average. 1151 occurred in England, 22 in Northern Ireland, 54 in Scotland and 16 in Wales.
Testing – 536,947 tests were processed yesterday out of a capacity of 793,524. This is an increase of 32.6% in the rolling 7-day average.
Hospitalisations – On Sunday, 10 January there were 35,075 people in hospital. 3363 were on ventilators on Monday 11th. The rolling7-day average for hospital admissions has increased by 34.8%.
Vaccinations – 2,431,648 people had received their 1st dose by 11 January. 412,167 people had received their 2nd dose by the same date. given the Government’s decision to prioritise 1st doses, I would not expect the figures for 2nd dosages to increase substantially for some weeks.
General – Just been reported that Nicola Sturgeon has further tightened restriction in Scotland around drinking alcohol outdoors, click and collect services and takeaways.
Ruckus
@WereBear:
Have a retired friend who stayed home most of the time before the last year. He has masked up to work outside for years so wearing a mask as he goes out is normal for him. He’s less worried about getting the shot simply because he and his wife pretty much isolate – normally. Shopping is it and shopping here in LA county is masked and the stores I go in get fined if they don’t mandate and enforce. So while a lot don’t mask when say walking about, they do when in enclosed areas. It’s just that so many have gone back to normalish life styles.
Ruckus
I was told that I can get my shots at the VA on Monday. But could find no number where to make an appointment. My primary answered via text that one has to be over 75 but the person I spoke to face to face made no mention of that, said I could wait for other walk ins but they only give shots in groups of six, which makes sense because there are six doses in a vial. I declined as it was already late in the day I expect that I’d be waiting till the next day. But as of getting home yesterday I have a phone # so giving it a try today.
J R in WV
@Ruckus:
Best of luck on your vaccination appt.
I wonder if I could register for the VA for just long enough to get a shot? Take my tax return and my DD214 in and beg?
No luck with the county Health Dept so far. May be an improvement given the new CDC advice, if they’ve heard about it out here.